Up to deliver vaccines to remote areas. We start on wall street where the Stock Market Rally continues with the s p 500 and nasdaq closing at new record highs. Americas Top Companies are reporting better than expected results. The senate is inching towards passing President Biden s 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. And theres been another fall in the number of americans filing forjobless benefits a sign the Labour Market is stabilising. There are still huge problems facing the worlds biggest economy but investors believe the flow of cheap money from the Federal Reserve will keep on coming. The biggest problem isjust that we have 20 million americans who are still in some state of receiving Unemployment Insurance benefit so we still have a really long way to go on the labour front and that take quite a bit of time to resolve. But gdp and output may recover faster but it will take more time to employ that many americans. I think it means that for market, we now believe that for market, we
than £300 a year, or 16%. just a reminder, 0fgem sets this cap every three months, it s the maximum suppliers can charge per unit and these figures represent a typical bill. if you use more, you pay more. let s speak to dr craig lowrey from cornwall insight hejoins is from norwich. given what s going on in the red sea, why are we not going to see a spike? certainly, the situation that we haveis certainly, the situation that we have is that the uk market and the european market is being relatively well supplied by liquefied natural gas from america, coming straight across the atlantic and as a consequence, what is occurring in the red sea is not currently affecting uk or european supplies. energy plays quite a big role in inflation this looks like the cost of living could really start to ease for people? what we saw when the price cap fell previously, there was the consequential drop in inflation so one can expect that would happen again and we would see energy bills feed
The Dow closed in positive territory with economically sensitive sectors such as industrials, materials and transports providing a boost, while tech and tech-adjacent megacap stocks pulled the Nasdaq to a lower close.